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Eleven photons tell the story of what made Swift distinctive. In May 2005, a gamma-ray burst lasted about 40 milliseconds. Just over a minute later, the spacecraft’s X-ray telescope was already observing that patch of sky. Those eleven photons revealed the first X-ray afterglow detected from a short gamma-ray burst. Its location was consistent with […]
